98 Ill. App. 3d 914 - People v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 172 Ill. 2d 484 - People v. Gilliam (1996), 96 Ill. 2d 327 - People v. Bourke (1983)
4 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Payton v. New York · Stovall v. Denno · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Included offense. ‘Included offense’ means an offense which (a) Is established by proof of the same or less than all of the facts or a less culpable mental state (or both), than that which is required to establish the commission of the offense charged, or (b) Consists of an attempt to commit the offense charged or an offense included therein." (Emphasis added.) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 2—9.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Forcible felony’ means treason, murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape, robbery, burglary, arson, kidnaping, aggravated battery and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.” (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 2—8.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.